Transfer Durak online

How passing the attack works

Everything works as in classic Durak: the attack, the defence with a higher card or a trump, throwing in ranks from the table and picking up. The difference comes the moment you are attacked. If you hold a card of the same rank as the attacking card, you do not have to beat it. You lay it next to it and the whole attack passes to the next player, who now has to beat two cards. You become the attacker and may still throw in.

When you may pass the attack

You may pass only while no card on the table is beaten yet and all the attacking cards share one rank. Once you beat even one, passing is over and only a normal defence remains. The next player must hold at least as many cards as will lie on the table after the pass, and the table may hold at most six cards. When you can pass and hints are on, the game shows it, and a card that does not fit tells you why.

How to defend in transfer Durak

Pairs of the same rank are worth more here than in classic Durak, because each one is a way out of an attack. Do not break them up without need. Before you pass, count how many cards the next player will have to beat and whether they can pass it on: with two players a passed attack goes straight back to your rival, but they can bounce it back if they hold a third card of that rank. Passing with a trump costs more than with a plain card, because trumps win the endgame.

Transfer Durak for two, three and four players

With two players a pass swaps the roles: the attacker suddenly has to defend. With three and four players an attack can travel round the table and land on someone who never saw it coming. You choose the number of players and the level of your rivals in the menu: gentle, clever or masters, who remember who picked up which cards. Online you sit down with real people, and the computer fills any empty armchair.

Transfer or classic: which to choose

Classic throw-in Durak is the place to start: fewer options, so it is easier to predict what your rivals will do. Transfer Durak is faster and more nervous, because an attack can come back to you with two or three cards to beat, and pairs of the same rank change what a hand is worth. The rules of beating, throwing in and picking up are the same in both, so switching takes one game. You change the mode in the menu before every deal.